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Dangarembga decries state 'chokehold'
A prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker arrested at recent protests accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government on Tuesday of holding its people in a repressive "chokehold" as they end...Published: 3 hrs ago | 863 | by Reuter
Caf thinks Chiyangwa is Zifa President
CAF has distanced itself from an embarrassing condolence letter signed by its president Ahmad Ahmad and addressed to Phillip Chiyangwa as Zifa president.The letter mourning the death of former...Published: 3 hrs ago | 740 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misleading Mnangagwa, says Mashakada
FORMER Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of misleading President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the nation through his continued de...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans see little change after leadership shift
WHEN the late Robert Mugabe was ousted as President of Zimbabwe in a coup in November 2017. many in the country hoped or an end to the repression and mismanagement that had characterised his 37 years ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 08:00hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advisers must resign, says Mpofu
Former MDC legislator Norman Mpofu has challenged the opposition leader Nelson Chamisa advisers to resign for advising him to take leave when the nation needs him the most."Can Chamisa advisor...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 12:17hrs | 7022 | by Stephen Jakes
I do not know that Shiri was a hero
In the good old times at The Sunday Mail with editor Willie Musarurwa, if late news arrived when we were going to press, it would be typed in blue ink and labelled, Late News.So it was, when I...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 7421 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Ex-DeMbare boss dies
ZIMBABWE football has been thrown into mourning once again following the death of another football administrator and former Dynamos chairman Phillip Mugadza.A football administrator, businessm...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:20hrs | 879 | by Staff reporter
Abductions rock region
THE MDC Alliance claims unknown men abducted eight of their Matabeleland South members last week as cases of enforced disappearances climb.The incidents came a week after an MDC Alliance membe...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:16hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Colonel Mugwisi buried
Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) director of public relations, Colonel Overson Mugwisi, was a hardworker and remained loyal to the liberation war before and after independence, Minister of State for Hara...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Lavish party from hell triggers Covid-19 panic after two deaths
THE Bulawayo City Health Department has instituted an investigation after claims that a dozen of people who attended a lavish and wild birthday party thrown by a city socialite and businessman last mo...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 4071 | by Staff Reporter
Tsitsi Dangarembga freed
Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said....Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 19:31hrs | 2185 | by AFP
Hope for Zimbabwe as coronavirus Covid-19 is not the end of the world
As CORONA VIRUS ravages the world and its ugly head makes upwards strides in Zimbabwe, we feel a great comfort in knowing that this world will never end b...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 3516 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: Chiwenga tells of his thieving days with Perrance Shiri
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, his two deputies and several cabinet ministers and senior government officials visited the Harare home of the late lands and agriculture minister Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) ...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 18:47hrs | 14685 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Burial of Gukurahundi Commander Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri has been buried at the National Shrine. His burial was attended by very few people who observed social distance in accordance with the World Health Organisa...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 15:15hrs | 5743 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tsitsi Dangarembga 'arrested'
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist, filmmaker, Gender and cultural activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has tweeted that she has been arrested in the capital, Harare....Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:29hrs | 3837 | by BBC/AFP
Israel Dube: Mnangagwa and Mliswa are not Mashonaland: Mashonaland is not mourning the death of Perrance Shiri
Zimbabwe is not divided into two because of the death of Perrance Shiri. Your article of yesterday on Bulawayo24 is wholly unfortunate and misleading. As we speak the people of Mashonaland are out the...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 11:35hrs | 4108 | by Nomazulu Thata
Opposition party distances self from its leader's utterances
NEWLY-FORMED opposition party, The Patriotic Front (TPF) has distanced itself from utterances made by its leader, Darryl Collet last week where he urged the country to forget both colonialism and Guku...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:40hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reveals what killed Perrance Shiri
Former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed. Mnangagwa told mourners who were gathered at Shiri's house that, "Now that...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 17:38hrs | 9481 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's advisor Sam Malaba dies
Former Agribank Chief Executive , Somkhosi Mahamba Temba Malaba has died. He had been suffering from kidney illness for the past 12 years.Malaba was also a members of the PAC (Presidential Adv...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 13:20hrs | 10772 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Gukurahundi victims celebrate the death of Perrance Shiri'
Victims of the Gukurahundi genocide that took place in the 1980s are celebrating the death of former 5th Brigade Commander Perrance Shiri, Ibhetshu lika Zulu Secretary-General Mbuso Fuzwayo has said. ...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 11:50hrs | 1880 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is someone poisoning our Generals?
What is happening to our Generals? Could there be a strange omen befalling our decorated and gallant sons or could it be the hand of God as Diego Maradona would put it?I have been thinking and...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 10:32hrs | 5971 | by Alex Muzuva
'Mthwakazi nation, not mourning the Zimbabwean terrorist Perrence Shiri'
Today Zimbabwe happens to be grieving after the sudden death through the deadly Corona Virus, of the so-called "Black Jesus" of the 1980s. A self-proclaimed 'Jesus' figure during the 5th brigade opera...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 19:57hrs | 2766 | by Velile D Moyo
Mnangagwa mourns Minister Shiri
President Mnangagwa has expressed deep sadness over the death of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri.Minister Shiri died early this...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:13hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri untimely death - evoking my traumatic childhood memories of witnessing Gukurahundi genocide
When I woke up this morning, there were two main things on my mind: to check if there was still Internet connectivity, as there had been widespread rumours last evening of an impending plan by the Zim...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:09hrs | 1331 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading justice by running to the realm of the dead.
Gukurahundi perpetrators evading accountability and justice by running to the realm of the dead. While not every death, and this particular one is a tragedy, it is with sadness that we learn o...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 14:00hrs | 967 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Perrance Shiri's death: A double loss to Gukurahundi victims
The Matabeleland All-Stakeholders People's Convention (known as Phutheho) has described the passing away of former 5TH Brigade Commander Perrance as a double loss to victims of the Gukurahundi Genocid...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:33hrs | 1454 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Communist Party mourns South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni
The Zimbabwe Communist Party (ZCP) has mourned the passing away of South Africa's Andrew Mlangeni, the last surviving anti-apartheid activist convicted with Nelson Mandela at South Africa's infamous R...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:17hrs | 367 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cop charged for head-butting driver
A POLICE officer from Bulawayo's Mzilikazi police station appeared in court facing charges of assaulting a Nyaradzo Funeral Services driver, who was picking up mourners at Ross Camp.Aleck Tung...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:05hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
America wants Biti, Sikhala to remove Chamisa?
Ever wondered why Nelson Chamisa chose to hand over reigns to the insipid WELSHMAN NCUBE as he grieved over loss of his dear mother? Or why the WELSH man got mired in TRUST FUNDS controversy soon afte...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 10:30hrs | 14488 | by George Charamba
Mnangagwa mourns ex-Tanzanian President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has paid tribute to former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa who passed on yesterday at the age of 81.In a letter to his Tanzanian counterpart President John Magufuli, the...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:12hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
Tanzania's former president Benjamin Mkapa dies
Tanzania's former President Benjamin Mkapa, who served from 1995 to 2005, died in the early hours of Friday, President John Magufuli said in a statement.Mkapa, the East African nation's third ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 18:10hrs | 426 | by Reuters
Khupe, top party executives 'exposed' to COVID-19
MDC-T acting leader Thokozani Khupe and several party leaders including acting secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora and acting national chairperson Morgen Komichi had physical contact with reportedly a ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 2854 | by Staff reporter
BCC warns against smuggling of corpses
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has warned residents against smuggling groceries into the country following reports that omalayitsha (cross-border transporters) were either sneaking in corpses with basic ...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:07hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
Shakespeare Mukoyi's father died of Coronavirus?
MDC National Youth Assembly leader Shakespeare Mukoyi's father succumbed to the deadly Coronavirus, a screenshot from an MDC-T Whatsapp chat group has alleged. According to a screenshot seen b...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 12:49hrs | 3866 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Nyamadzawo dies
Former Mbizo ward 5 councillor Alderman Reason Nyamadzawo has died.This was announced by MDC Alliance legislator for Kwekwe Settlement Chikwinya through his Facebook page."Have learnt with...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 10:24hrs | 1885 | by Stephen Jakes
Ex-Zanu-PF councillor dies
A FORMER Zanu-PF councillor in the Hwange Local Board (HLB) has died at the age of 83. Chemist Dube, popularly known as Dali in the party structures, died at Hwange Colliery Hospital in the ea...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:03hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF leader fails to bury son
FORMER Zanu-PF youth leader Jim Kunaka has had to endure a painful week-long mourning for his late son as health authorities are demanding his coronavirus Covid-19 test result before they can bury him...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 17:58hrs | 17646 | by Staff reporter
Former Triangle FC vice-chairman succumbs to Covid-19
Covid-19 claims TRIANGLE Football Club are in mourning following the death of their former vice-chairman, Goodwill Pfumojena who succumbed to Covid-19 at a private facility in Bulawayo in the ...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 1310 | by Staff Reporter
Covid-19 results delay Guzah burial
BURIAL arrangements for the late businessman and politician Keith Guzah have been put on hold until the results of Covid-19 tests done posthumously have been released.His daughter Nicole said ...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 18:24hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC plunged into mourning
THE MDC Alliance has been plunged into mourning following the death of one of its long-serving members and Bulawayo ward 8 councillor Ronnia Mudhara.Mudhara succumbed to kidney failure on Mond...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:36hrs | 8703 | by Staff reporter
Khupe pummels Chamisa faction
ACTING MDC leader Thokozani Khupe, pictured, and her team are unrelenting in their assaults on Nelson Chamisa and his top allies - signalling yesterday that they are now planning to sack 30 more party...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:53hrs | 11388 | by Staff reporter
Jim Kunaka's son dies
Tyson wabantu movement Volunteer Leader Jim Kunaka lost his son on Sunday night. Kunakas' 12 year old son passed away in ICU at Parirenyatwa hospital after a very short illness.In a statement,...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 06:49hrs | 4984 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe, Chamisa peace deal on the cards?
THE ugly infighting that has divided the MDC could soon come to an end, amid renewed attempts to unite Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa ahead of the party's planned extra-ordinary congress.A...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:19hrs | 11851 | by Staff reporter
Drama at Chamisa mother's funeral
Tempers flared up in what should have been a somber moment when MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa was burying his late mother in Gutu on Tuesday.Chamisa's mother collapsed and died in her gar...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:22hrs | 9303 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa opens up on his humble upbringing
A GRIEVING Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition MDC Alliance party, has, for the first time, opened up on his humble beginnings, saying his late mother was very instrumental in his meteoric rise t...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:05hrs | 13522 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells mourners that he is unstoppable
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he was unstoppable and unfazed by his political woes that saw him lose the party headquarters, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House and the reca...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:24hrs | 7095 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rescues Khupe at his mother's funeral
MDC-Alliance hooligans allegedly manhandled and temporarily blocked MDC-T leader Dr Thokozani Khupe from attending the burial of Gogo Alice Chamisa, the mother to MDC-Alliance faction leader Mr Nelson...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 4585 | by Staff reporter
APA mourns Chamisa's mother
Dr Nkosana Moyo led Alliance for People's Agenda has mourned the passing on of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's mother.In a condolence message posted on its Facebook Wall, APA said "Fellow...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 12:27hrs | 4232 | by Stephen Jakes
Thokozani Khupe mourns Chamisa's mother
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has joined the rest of the MDC family in mourning the passing away of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's mother. In a statement issued on her behalf, Khupe's&nbs...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 11647 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kasukuwe mourns Stella Madzimbamuto
Saviour Kasukuwere has issued a condolence message to Zimbabweans on the passing away of Stella Madzimbamuto a struggle stalwart who is known for leading a legal challenge against the racist minority ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 6137 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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